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We report the observation of an acute sensitivity of the anisotropic longitudinal resistivity of two-dimensional electron systems in half-filled high Landau levels to the magnitude and orientation of an in-plane magnetic field. In the third…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. P. Lilly , K. B. Cooper , J. P. Eisenstein , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

In the quantum Hall effect regime, taking place in a two-dimensional-electron gas under strong magnetic field, currents flow along the edges of the sample. For some particle-hole conjugate states of the fractional regime, e.g., with filling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-07 Aveek Bid , Nissim Ofek , Hiroyuki Inoue , Moty Heiblum , Charles Kane , Vladimir Umansky , Diana Mahalu

The fractional quantum Hall effect, where plateaus in the Hall resistance at values of coexist with zeros in the longitudinal resistance, results from electron correlations in two dimensions under a strong magnetic field. Current flows…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Dolev , M. Heiblum , V. Umansky , Ady Stern , D. Mahalu

We have investigated the influence of an increasing in-plane magnetic field on the states at half-filling of Landau levels ($\nu$ = 11/2, 9/2, 7/2, and 5/2) of a two-dimensional electron system. In the electrically anisotropic phase at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 W. Pan , R. R. Du , H. L. Stormer , D. C. Tsui , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. Baldwin , K. W. West

We present a comprehensive numerical study of a microscopic model of the fractional quantum Hall system at filling fraction $\nu = 5/2$, based on the disc geometry. Our model includes Coulomb interaction and a semi-realistic confining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xin Wan , Zi-Xiang Hu , E. H. Rezayi , Kun Yang

We report on magnetotransport measurements of multi-terminal suspended graphene devices. Fully developed integer quantum Hall states appear in magnetic fields as low as 2 T. At higher fields the formation of longitudinal resistance minima…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Fereshte Ghahari , Yue Zhao , Paul Cadden-Zimansky , Kirill Bolotin , Philip Kim

Transport experiments in high mobility (110) GaAs heterostructures have been performed at very low temperatures 8 mK. At higher Landau-Levels we observe a transport anisotropy that bears some similarity with what is already seen at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Frank Fischer , Matthew Grayson , Erwin Schuberth , Dieter Schuh , Max Bichler , Gerhard Abstreiter

We analyze the experimental observation of metastable anisotropy resistance orientation at half filled quantum Hall fluids by means of a model of a quantum nematic liquid in an explicit symmetry breaking potential. We interpret the observed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-19 Daniel G. Barci , Zochil González Arenas

Interesting non-Abelian states, e.g., the Moore-Read Pfaffian and the anti-Pfaffian, offer candidate descriptions of the $\nu = 5/2$ fractional quantum Hall state. But the significant controversy surrounding the nature of the $\nu = 5/2$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-04-16 Kiryl Pakrouski , Michael R. Peterson , Thierry Jolicoeur , Vito W. Scarola , Chetan Nayak , Matthias Troyer

We report the observation of an even-denominator fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state at $\nu=1/4$ in a high quality, wide GaAs quantum well. The sample has a quantum well width of 50 nm and an electron density of $n_e=2.55\times10^{11}$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. R. Luhman , W. Pan , D. C. Tsui , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. Baldwin , K. W. West

The nu=5/2 fractional quantum Hall state is studied numerically, directly including the effects of electron scattering between neighboring Landau levels. Significant reduction of the excitation gap caused by the LL mixing explains the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Arkadiusz Wojs , John J. Quinn

We discuss the orbital effect of a tilted magnetic field on the quantum Hall effect in parabolic quantum wells. Many-body states realized at the fractional 1/3 and 1/2 filling of the second electronic subband are studied using finite-size…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-28 Z. Papic

We present observations of an anisotropic resistance state at Landau level filling factor $\nu=5/2$ in a two-dimensional hole system (2DHS), which occurs for certain values of hole density $p$ and average out-of-plane electric field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 A. F. Croxall , F. Sfigakis , J. Waldie , I. Farrer , D. A. Ritchie

We study the \nu=5/2 even-denominator fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) over a wide range of magnetic (B) field in a heterojunction insulated gate field-effect transistor (HIGFET). The electron density can be tuned from n=0 to 7.6…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 W. Pan , H. L. Stormer , D. C. Tsui , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. Baldwin , K. W. West

We explain effective charge anomalies recently observed for fractional quantum Hall edge states at $\nu=5/2$ [M. Dolev, Y. Gross, Y. C. Chung, M. Heiblum, V. Umansky, and D. Mahalu, Phys.Rev. B. \textbf{81}, 161303(R) (2010)]. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-10-03 M. Carrega , D. Ferraro , A. Braggio , N. Magnoli , M. Sassetti

We present in this Letter the results from two high quality, low density GaAs quantum wells. In sample A of electron density n=5.0x10^10 cm^-2, anisotropic electronic transport behavior was observed at \nu=7/2 in the second Landau level. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 W. Pan , A. Serafin , J. S. Xia , L. Yin , N. S. Sullivan , K. W. Baldwin , K. W. West , L. N. Pfeiffer , D. C. Tsui

The $\nu=2/5$ state is spin-unpolarized at weak magnetic field and fully polarized at strong field. At intermediate field, a plateau of half the maximal polarization is observed. We study this phenomenon in the frame of composite fermion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Shi-Jie Yang , Yue Yu , Bang-Fen Zhu

Magneto-transport measurements in a wide GaAs quantum well in which we can tune the Fermi energy ($E_F$) to lie in different Landau levels of the two occupied electric subbands reveal a remarkable pattern for the appearance and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-03-06 Yang Liu , Javad Shabani , Mansour Shayegan

As a high mobility two-dimensional semiconductor with strong structural and electronic anisotropy, atomically thin black phosphorus (BP) provides a new playground for investigating the quantum Hall (QH) effect, including outstanding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Jiawei Yang , Son Tran , Jason Wu , Shi Che , Petr Stepanov , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Hongwoo Baek , Dmitry Smirnov , Ruoyu Chen , Chun Ning Lau

Theory predicts that quasiparticle tunneling between the counter-propagating edges in a fractional quantum Hall state can be used to measure the effective quasiparticle charge e* and dimensionless interaction parameter g, and thereby…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-18 Iuliana P. Radu , J. B. Miller , C. M. Marcus , M. A. Kastner , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West